Announcements
18.09.2024 - 19.09.2024 Neelima Jeychandran, Virginia Commonwealth University, Qatar; Monica Merlin, Virginia Commonwealth University, Qatar; Nicole Ranganath, University of California, Davis, USA

This conference aims to uncover the unwritten histories of migration through the material culture that people most valued and brought with them as they traversed the space of the Indian Ocean world and beyond. We invite papers about the flow of peoples in relation to their belongings across the Indian Ocean and Asiatic geographies.

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Reviews
Rev. by Stefan Berger, Institut für soziale Bewegungen, Ruhr-Universität Bochum

The long years of Conservative rule in the United Kingdom between 1979 and 1997 were years in which the Labour leadership, starting with Neil Kinnock, came to argue that one of the preconditions for Labour to be able to become a party of government once again, was the “modernization” of the party and its policies over a wide range of policy areas.

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Journals

Uncovering Non-Official Expectations of Independence in Africa
Ed. by Ngozi Edeagu and Dmitri van den Bersselaar

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Articles
By Jens Jäger, Historisches Institut, Universität zu Köln

Interpol – or rather the International Criminal Police Commission (ICPC) [1], as it was known until 1956 – was the only international organization to fall entirely into German hands after 1933. In contrast to the Nazi policy towards international organizations, which was generally ambivalent if not hostile [2], the new leaders of the German police took a keen interest in the ICPC.

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Conference Reports
12.10.2023 - 14.10.2023 Cristian Cercel, Institute for Danube Swabian History and Regional Studies, Tübingen; Dietmar Müller, Leipzig University
By David Borchin, Institut für Interdisziplinäre Studien und Forschungen, Lucian-Blaga-Universität-Sibiu
 
, Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect, LMU Munich
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